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Synopsis: Johnny Mad Dog, maybe 15, leads a band of boy soldiers in a civil war in an unnamed African country. "Don't want to die? Don't be born" is one of their shouted mottoes. We follow Mad Dog and his crew - No Good Advice, Butterfly, Chicken Hair, and others - as they kill, pillage rape, interrogate, and terrorize on their march to the capital. They take a TV station and lead an assault on the President's residence. We also follow Laokole, about Johnny age, as she tries to hold together her family of brother and disabled father. Is there more than chaos and inhumanity here? At war since age 10, has Johnny anything inside?
Genre: Drama, War
Production: MNP Entreprise
  5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
Year:
2008
98 min
Website
315 Views


Mad Dog!

Yes, general.

Get your men prepared for tomorrow.

Everybody get ready,

pack the ammunition and everything.

We set fire to the city tomorrow.

You're the target commander.

I need the city asap.

- You got it?

- Yes, general.

Go and get prepared.

Gentlemen, we have again

done a great task for this country

by capturing the TV station

that the government used

for propaganda to the outside world.

Without the TV station,

there are no means to communicate

with the people.

In a few days we'll be in the city.

Once there, we'll chase the Dogos out,

house by house, street by street,

until we get rid of them.

There's a bridge ahead.

When we get on the bridge,

we'll put fire to the city

and get the president out of power.

We need to liberate our people,

bring freedom to our people.

We have to make sure our resources

are used in the right way.

The Dogos have been oppressing

our people forever.

Be very wary of them.

Watch out for the luggage

on their heads.

They can hide weapons

in their mattresses.

I don't want you to die

on the mission.

The mission is crucial.

Your life is tied to the mission.

Be careful with your life!

Am I clear?

Yes, sir!

They can shoot you in the back.

I don't want you to lose your lives

on this mission.

- You get it?

- Yes, sir!

We're going to reach the city

and get the president out of power!

You, you know me?

I'm Johnny Mad Dog,

Small Boy Unit commander.

- Your name!

- Fatumata.

Fatumata, you Dogo girl.

But today you'll join my unit.

- What for?

- Shut up, No Good Advice.

But she's a Dogo.

The girl will help us

kill the f***ing Dogo president.

We'll get peace in our country.

Freedom in our country,

you like it?

Follow me. Let's go.

- You ready to fight the war with me?

- Yes, sir!

- Death dealers, you listening?

- Yes, sir!

You are the death dealers, rebels.

We are now about to start our mission.

Gentlemen, I want you to be calm.

This war is our war.

Free your heart.

Fight the war as a soldier.

Relax your mind.

Open your heart to the revolution.

Fight, no retreat.

Don't think about home.

After the revolution

you'll get your benefits.

Money will be given

and you'll go see your parents.

We need to go

and capture the whole f***ing city.

You need to go.

No retreat, no surrender...

No ma and pa...

Any soldier talking about ma and pa

will be executed.

Gentlemen, death dealer rebels,

be strong and vigilant.

Guys, you seen it for yourselves,

you're now bullet-proof!

Don't draw back from war,

if they fire at you, fire back.

- You don't wanna die...

- Don't be born!

- Mad Dog!

- Yes, general!

Your next mission is to move

to the embassy.

- Secure the area until I get there.

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Emmanuel Dongala

Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala (born 1941) is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014.In 1997, he was dean of Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville when war broke out in the Republic of Congo. Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the American college. As a chemist, his specialty is stereochemistry and asymmetric synthesis, as well as environmental toxicology. He is the author of a number of award-winning novels including Johnny Mad Dog (French: Johnny Chien Méchant) and Little Boys Come from the Stars. His work is featured in the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, and he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. There is a film based on his book Johnny Mad Dog, a 2008 French-Liberian film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and starring Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay and Joseph Duo. He was winner of the 2004 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for Johnny chien méchant. more…

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